He is Shaykh al-Imam Jamal al-Din Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Mahmud bin. Sa'id bin Nuh al-Qabisi al-Ghaznawi al-Hanafi. He is widely known as Taj al-Hanaf, it has also been said his name was Muhammad instead of Ahmad. Not much of his early academic life is known nor documented except that many have mentioned his knowledge and his written works.